- Mama,he Treats Your Daughter Mean Ruth Brown 2:59
- Baby Don't Do It The '5' Royales 2:47
- Gabbin Blues Big Maybelle 2:42
- Whoopin' And Hollerin' Earl Forest 3:03
- Hound Dog Big Mama Thornton 2:52
- Big Ten-Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson 2:15
- I'm Gone Shirley And Lee 2:21
- Please Love Me B.B. King 2:52
- Soft Tiny Bradshaw 2:34
- Dream Girl Jesse And Marvin 3:15
- I'm Mad Willie Mabon And His Combo 2:39
- I Wanna Know The Du Droppers 2:20
- The Clock Johnny Ace 3:00
- Got It The Royals 2:14
- Please Don't Leave Me Fats Domino 2:36
- Crying In The Chapel The Orioles 3:05
- Hittin On Me Buddy & Ella Johnson 3:10
- Good Lovin' The Clovers 3:01
- Mess Around Ray Charles 2:43
- Shake A Hand Faye Adams 2:55
- Honey Hush Big Joe Turner 2:42
- Blues With A Feeling Little Walter 3:08
- Marie The Four Tunes 2:21
- I Had A Notion Joe Morris Orchestra 2:45
- Feelin Good Little Junior's Blue Flames 2:59
- T.V. Is The Thing Dinah Washington 2:28
- Money Honey Clyde Mcphatter & The Drifters 2:57
Notes
The Blowing the Fuse series from Germany's Bear Family imprint is one of the more welcome and seriously assembled collections ever to be issued on CD. With each volume dedicated to a year, they go deep into the ghost stories of R&B to find the tunes that connected, not necessarily with sales (though many of these tunes also accomplished that), but in a primary spot nonetheless: the long-gone centerpiece of American popular music in the '40s, '50s, and '60s: the jukebox. Each week, men with loads of 45 rpm slabs of vinyl would extract the dead dogs and fill the box with new tracks that could be played for pennies on the dollar to anyone entering a soda shop, a bar or a nightspot where alcohol was served and imbibed cheaply; a dimestore's lunch counter, or breakfast and lunch haunts all over the nation
